Voting

The Oregon Republican Party challenged Libertarian ballot access because of an internal dispute over party bylaws.

While elections may be the outrage du jour, officials and longtime residents in Shasta and beyond are concerned the damage to civic life will be permanent.

At the CalMatters Ideas Festival, two political experts debate the impact of young Latino voters driven more by economic concerns than immigration.

As of Tuesday morning, only 33.6% of the state’s registered voters had returned their ballots.

Despite a pause in a national plan to consolidate postal services, the effects have already taken root in Oregon. State and local lawmakers are calling for changes to post office operations in Southern Oregon.

Sen. Dennis Linthicum, a Klamath County Republican running to preside over state elections, was one plaintiff.

Oregon’s House Republican leader sent state election officials scrambling this week after he used a minor delay in delivering mailed ballots to clerks in two counties to raise doubts about the integrity of the state’s voting system.

Three Oregon Republicans running to control the state’s elections have all stoked false claims of voter fraud and indicated they want to end Oregon’s decades-long tradition of running elections by mail.

The next county clerk/registrar of voters in Shasta County will be appointed by the board of supervisors in a completely public interview process. This comes after the previous elected county clerk stepped down last week.

Democrats in California’s Assembly and Senate rarely vote against bills, yet few seem willing to discuss their voting records, as well as the controversial practice of declining to vote instead of saying “no.”

Oregonians have until April 30 to register to vote in the upcoming primary election.

They say they plan to file a new lawsuit if she wins the May 21 primary.